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He's been really impressive thus far. Scored a belter against Bournemouth in the FA Cup.

Still absolutely buzzing after us scoring on Saturday. So rare. These fans with their helpful arrows clearly had an impact http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/07/256DFE1100000578-0-image-a-10_1423325203391.jpg

Tell you what, if we could get rid of Lambert tomorrow, I would walk to Derby and carry McClaren to Villa Park. And I live 40 miles south of Villa Park to start with.

I used to like him, but in this second coming period, he's just become too fucking tedious for words. I can't wait to see the smug cunt's face when we absolutely smash them to fuck tomorrow at our place.

In all that television rights thing, with them flogging off packages of matches to ensure more than one broadcaster, how many nanoseconds do we think Scudamore and the other cunts devoted to thinking about the fans having to fork out for more than one subscription? My guess is zero. What football in this country needs is some sort of Year Zero situation to roll all this shit back. I'll give you all advance warning, if I ever find myself heading up a coup and leading this country, I will be putting in effect an extensive programme of nationalisation, and football will be coming first.

One of the true managerial greats. 33 years in the job, won one trophy, get three different clubs relegated and managed to bankrupt two of them. Now he has gone, what will SSN do with that particularly crack-licking reporter of theirs - the one with the face that looks like he's just suffered a severe head trauma - that gets sent wherever "Arry" is on deadline day, in a desperate attempt to create some sort of "Aw, 'Arry, you're sach a card!" bonhomie?

Hooray no more SSN twats going on about "Harry" under the strange illusion we all call him that and think he's a loveable character (see also the BBC's nauseating belief that people really actually think Robbie Savage is a "character" rather than just a "cunt")

We can defend. Despite the evidence of Sunday, we really can defend quite well. I think we had the third best goals against figure till Sunday. If anything saves us, it will be that. How is Okore doing for you guys? Haven't really seen any of your games, but as a Dane I'm interested in his development. How is his level after the injury? He's been great And that's the thing. Lambert has bought some duds, but to be fair, they've all been really cheap duds. If he spends 4-5m plus, he does well. Okore, Sanchez, Benteke, Kozak, Gil by the looks of it, Vlaar. You can't knock those signings. The problem is he then totally fails to get the best out of them.

To be fair to him, he's also getting known at Villa for scoring late goals. Except they're coming weeks too late. *badumtish*

I don't hate him as a person. To be fair to him, he strikes me as a bloke who understands the club, understands the expectations (even the new, mega low ones) and understands why people get annoyed However, I have to say, the amount of patience he has had is truly staggering. The only bad stuff he gets on match day is occasional end of half booing. Sometimes he'll take Cleverley off and get sarcastic applause, but that is honestly all that he has had. On match day, people aren't getting on his back. Contrary to what the press said at the time, this is exactly what McLeish got, too, although in his case it was the first season. In the McLeish year, we had an awful match against Bolton at home where the crowd turned on him, but that was at the end of April. Lambert has got away with it into the third season. So, no, he isn't hated. He is just regarded as absolutely incompetent. In fact, I would say the word most Villa fans would use for him is "chancer". After matches, he'll say we're excellent despite massive evidence to the contrary. For 2 years plus when we'd regularly have abouy 35% possession, he'd always say "I don't believe in stats". In the last couple of months where we are often having more possession than the opposition, we'll lose and he'll point out that we had more possession. He basically comes across as saying whatever he has to say to keep himself in a job. We now have three consecutive home games. I have a feeling we'll win none of them. Come the third, I think the crowd will turn. With us, it tends to be that we are slow to turn on managers, but when we do, we all turn at the same time. I think he has his "Bolton moment" coming soon.

We can defend. Despite the evidence of Sunday, we really can defend quite well. I think we had the third best goals against figure till Sunday. If anything saves us, it will be that.

I didn't see it, no. One side effect of us being so bad is that I never, ever want to watch MOTD these days. See also any other football stuff beyond our actual matches. It is just too depressing. Our problem is that, up until about 2 months ago, Lambert only understood the concept of counter attacking. There's nothing wrong with the counter attack, but there are two things which you need to be careful about. One is that, it only works if you are good at it. Every time I hear a lazy pundit talking about us counter attacking and then talking about the pace, it makes me want to vomit. We aren't any good at counter attacking. We don't have lots of pace up front. Benteke and Weimann aren't pacy, FFS. Under MON with better players, we were better at it, but not now. The other is that there is a thin line between counter attacking and just sitting back and lumping it hopefully long. That's what we'd end up doing if the opposition weren't nice enough to play into our hands. Then, about 3 months ago, he hit on the idea of actually trying to keep the ball. Something fans had been begging him to do for fucking ages. And lo and behold, we are keeping the ball. The problem is we're spending huge amounts of that time passing it around between us in the area of the half way line. He's fucking dim, ultimately. He just can't work out that that alone is not enough. He doesn't, for example, get the concept of players moving off the ball, moving into space. He doesn't seem to have a clue about how to get us creating from this possession. Sanchez (despite his nightmare on Sunday) is technically very good. So is Gil. But they are dragged down by the likes of Cleverley and, to a lesser extent, Westwood just passing the fucking thing sideways all the time. Ultimately, Lambert hasn't got a clue how to make it work. There were 10 minute spells in the match at the Emirates where we had 70% possession. At the Emirates. The problem is, Lambert sees that alone as an improvement, but it isn't, it is as above, just cluelessly passing it between us. He said after Sunday's match, "we will carry on working in training and the goals will come". That scares us all to death. NO THEY WILL NOT FUCKING JUST COME. That's why they haven't just come in the last six games in which we have failed to score a single goal. It isn't going to magically just fix itself, for fuck's sake. The trigger should have been pulled long ago, but Lerner just does not care any more. He's absolutely living in cloud cuckoo land these days. That's the biggest frustration. Not being fucking shit, but the fact that there is no hope of the manager paying the price. None whatsoever. Even if we go down, he'll stay in the job. For four years Lerner was one of the best chairmen around, and then for the next four or five years, he has absolutely been amongst the worst. He used to be just clueless and naive. Now he is clueless, naive and totally unbothered.

Good player. Brummie, how did you think he did for you last year? Totally unremarkable. I don't know if that's more about us dragging him down to our level, though.

Amazing window for us. A massive £2.7m layout, on top of our summer business, makes it a cool £8.9m spent in the last year.

Surely this deal can't be legal? It is a blatant example of Ashley doing something which is purely in the interests of Ashley.

Yes. Strange club. I suspect the only reason they haven't signed Harold Shipman is because he's dead.

Here's another one. From our last 38 league games: P 38 W:8 D:9 L: 21 F:24 A:59 Points: 33 24 goals scored in 38 matches. Fucking hell. Incredible. Also, worth noting, in September, this genius manager was given a new, improved four year contract.

Because they have a tool like Ashley at the top of the club. Is the correct answer. Mind you, at least your tool is interested enough to go to matches occasionally. Ours isn't. The bloke started great but in the last four years has been significantly worse than Ellis. Ellis, despite having cashed out 9 years ago and being 90 years old and barely able to stand any more, still goes to every match, home and away. Lerner probably only watches our matches on telly if he's got no Big Bang Theory box set to watch instead. Mind you, in a way I don't blame him. it's about as much fun as being repeatedly punched in the cornea. No offense brummie but I doubt anyone could careless weather the cunt showed up or not. It's just a case of two negligent owners who are happy to rip out the heart and sole of local institutions. True. It isn't just about him not turning up, it's just symbolic of his degree of "couldn't give a fuckness". Two great examples of people running clubs without giving one tenth of one single shit for the fans.

And it is actually worse than that, as we are, I believe, the lowest scorers in any of the major European leagues.

Because they have a tool like Ashley at the top of the club. Is the correct answer. Mind you, at least your tool is interested enough to go to matches occasionally. Ours isn't. The bloke started great but in the last four years has been significantly worse than Ellis. Ellis, despite having cashed out 9 years ago and being 90 years old and barely able to stand any more, still goes to every match, home and away. Lerner probably only watches our matches on telly if he's got no Big Bang Theory box set to watch instead. Mind you, in a way I don't blame him. it's about as much fun as being repeatedly punched in the cornea.

Please, please, please, if there is a higher being, make this end soon. Please, I can't stand any more of it. First time six league games in a row without scoring in our 141 years. That's a brand new record to add to all the other shit ones. 10 points from the first four games, then just 12 points from the next 57, and 7 goals in 19 games. Then there's this: In just his first season: Worst ever start to a season Highest number of goals conceded. Biggest ever league defeat. Ever. Biggest number of goals conceded without reply (16). Highest number of home defeats. (9) First side to get beaten over two legs by a fourth tier side. Second season: Highest number of home defeats (10) Equalled record for lowest number of points in a PL season (record set by McLeish two seasons before). Third season: Highest number of minutes without scoring a goal. Lowest goal tally after 20 games. Lowest points tally in a calendar year Longest period without scoring in front of The Holte. Managerial statistics for us: P113 W34 D26 L53 Lost just under 50% of his matches with us. Last week, CEO speaks up for this first time: blaming Paul is a "false narrative", it's not his fault, we're "building a team around Paul, to help him" Total and utter head in the sand, with a gigantic "fuck you" to the fans. Sickmaking.

Fuck Bournemouth, even we managed to beat them the other week. they'd rested 6 players, mind.

Sorted that for you.

Six league games in a row without scoring. For the first time EVER. Which, being as we were formed in 1874, makes that a 141 year record smashed, effortlessly. We won't score next week, either. Still, the new CEO (who is the same bloke who was previously commercial boss at Arsenal and said at the time that there were other things to be proud of beyond winning, like having "world class sponsors") was on the telly last week saying to sack Lambert would be wrong, a "false narrative" and that his job isn't under threat. There's no level of humiliation Lerner will not put up with.

He looks about 45 years old.